TikTok is much better if you use it in a country where they haven’t enabled the crazy home shopping network functionality. This is kind of like Amazon where they found a business model that makes so much money they can’t stop as it destroys the central value proposition of their platform. 

 I didn’t realize there were countries that don’t have the TikTok shopping thing 

 Yeah it’s only US, UK, Spain, France, Germany, and Italy I think right now. 

https://www.tiktok.com/discover/tiktok-monetization-eligible-countries?lang=en 

 I have such an American bias though I read this stuff for hours every week 

 I wish there was a way to turn it off. It was such a fun app 4 or 5 years ago when I started using it, but they’ve ruined it sadly.